TRADE: Out of Oxford Street

Off the liner Washington at Manhattan last
week stepped a Wisconsin-born Britisher who looks more than a little
like David Lloyd George: London's most famous merchant, 74-year-old H.
Gordon Selfridge. To newshawks at the ship he said: "The opportunity to
achieve . . . has been eliminated all over the world . . . everyone
will be on salary . . . enterprise will be abandoned."

From the only man who ever bought a business* from five Jews and sold
it to seven Scotchmen at a profit, this was a dire prophecy. Yet the
pert, imaginative magnificowho cleaned up a cool...